BRUNSWICK In 2014, in honor of its 50th anniversary, the Bowdoin International Music Festival created the Kaplan Fellowship Program to offer tuition free opportunities for advanced musicians at the beginning of significant careers in music. Now in its third year, the program is a unique offering geared to mature, accomplished players. Kaplan Fellows perform with […]

BATH The Friends of Patten Free Library in Bath will hold their annual Children’s Book Sale in honor of National Children’s Book Week from May 3 through May 6, during regular library hours. Books looking for new families will be available in the Children’s Room. There will be no set prices at the sale — […]

DAMARISCOTTA “Our Town,” by Thornton Wilder, opened in 1938 in New Jersey, went on to enjoy Broadway success, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and has remained in performance on the global scene, ever since. Heartwood Theater opens their version of this long running classic on April 29, running through May 7. Heartwood’s approach to […]

BRUNSWICK Inspired by the popular Paint Night events around the country, Curtis Memorial Library decided to bring Paint Night programming to their patrons for free on May 2 from 5:30- 7:30 p.m. The program allows attendees of any skill level to recreate paintings by following guided, step-bystep instructions from the artist who created the original […]

DAMARISCOTTA Brunswick artist Ed McCartan will be featured at Savory Maine Dining in Damariscotta from May 5 through June 13. McCartan’s work, a combination of acrylic and mixed media materials, derives from his fascination with natural forms such as ferns and seed pods, as well as his love of the forest, the ocean and rivers. […]

BRUNSWICK High and Low, the first group show of 2016 by Points of View Artists, opens May 2 at Gallery Framing in Brunswick. From the heights of Mt. Katahdin to the depths of Dante’s Inferno, original paintings, prints, photographs, collage and ceramics will be featured. Eight of POV’s 14 artists are participating in this pre-Art […]

ARIES Mar. 21 – Apr. 20 Things seem to be in high gear this week, Aries. Others around you are just as boisterous, and it may even seem manic. Exercise a little extra patience to get through. TAURUS Apr. 21 – May 21 Taurus, you have been hiding something and it’s time you let your […]

BRUNSWICK The Bowdoin International Music Festival will present the JACK Quartet on July 25. It will be the fourth concert in the festival’s Monday Showcase series featuring string quartets from around the globe in Bowdoin’s Studzinski Recital Hall. The quartet will be playing Guillaume de Machaut’s (arr. Ari Streisfeld) Three Pieces, John Zorn’s The Remedy […]

BRUNSWICK In 2014, in honor of its 50th anniversary, the Bowdoin International Music Festival created the Kaplan Fellowship Program to offer tuition free opportunities for advanced musicians at the beginning of significant careers in music. Now in its third year, the program is a unique offering geared to mature, accomplished players. Kaplan Fellows perform with […]

TOPSHAM It’s a Saturday afternoon in early spring and The Ballet School studio in Topsham is warm and filled with smiling, breathless dancers. They have just finished rehearsing “March — The Awakening,” a scene from their new ballet “Calendaria: Celebrating the Seasons – A Ballet for All Ages.” “It’s a challenging dance” said the school’s […]